Constrained independent component analysis (CICA) is capable of eliminating the order ambiguity that is found in the standard ICA and extracting the desired independent components by incorporating prior information into the ICA contrast function. However, the current CICA method produces constraints that are based on only one type of prior information (temporal/spatial), which may increase the ...

BACKGROUND Virtual reality is consistently reported as effective in reducing pain and anxiety in children during burns dressing changes in recent Western studies. Pain scales are a commonly reported outcome measure. Virtual reality is persuasive for all children in distress during medical procedures, because it is a nonaddictive, novel, and inexpensive form of distraction which can be applied r...

Increasing incidences of chronic wounds urge the development effective therapeutic wound treatment. As conventional dressings are found not to comply with all requirements an ideal dressing, alternative and is demanded. Over past few years, electrospun nanofiber has been recognized as a better system for dressing hence studied extensively. Most were fabricated single-layer structure mats. Howev...

Zinc oxide tape has been used successfully in 40 patients to treat finger-tip and soft-tissue injuries which had not healed with conventional dressings. It is easy to apply, cheap and readily accepted by both patients and staff. The authors strongly recommend this simple dressing for the slow-to-heal finger-tip injury.

BACKGROUND The use of negative pressure in the dressing of split skin grafts has been shown to promote healing by a variety of mechanisms, including a decrease in interstitial oedema, an increase in perfusion and a decrease in bacterial colonisation. Vacuum-assisted closure (VAC) dressings have, until now, been used as the archetype for negative pressure dressings and have been reflected as suc...

Ultracold quantum gases confined in three-dimensional bubble traps are promising tools for exploring many-body effects on curved manifolds. As an alternative to the conventional technique of radio-frequency dressing, we propose create such shell-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates microgravity based dual-species atomic mixtures and analyze their properties as well feasibility realize symmetrically...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of a standardized silicone liner programme on the duration of prosthetic rehabilitation in patients who underwent transtibial amputation as a result of peripheral arterial disease. METHODS This retrospective study enrolled patients who underwent transtibial amputation followed by one of two stump management programmes at the same rehabilitation centre over ...